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Blabbers Communications Ltd

This is the Blabbers installer, a PUP (potentially unwanted program) that will modify the web browser's search behavior as well as may hijack the browser's home page and other providers. The application update.exe by Blabbers Communications has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Blabbers Communications Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a13f8488c0c3396e662630184415b19d

SHA-1:
f33330f5c94b52f64a6252c464dae3395e916bb8

SHA-256:
46e47b4d3173266a5d4ac5e6b793e45436dab994714b71c2da58f307b4d08dc6

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 2:34:21 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Blabbers (M)
16.10.23.18

File size:
670.7 KB (686,768 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\blabbers\update.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Blabbers Communications Ltd

Authority:
The USERTRUST Network

Valid from:
2/10/2011 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/11/2012 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Blabbers Communications Ltd, O=Blabbers Communications Ltd, STREET=Arad 3, L=Tel Aviv, S=Israel, PostalCode=43034, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=UTN-USERFirst-Object, OU=http://www.usertrust.com, O=The USERTRUST Network, L=Salt Lake City, S=UT, C=US

Serial number:
00D561643A7697D633BCB565E2E1EF7365

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/7/2009 12:41:48 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:odU20iXHbwz3o5s46mKQxBVjzjewYfJLHQm1V+Rjw7CZXQN65hyaF/Co:o/0iXHbwz3o5Zv/jzjewYdQA+RmC5D0o

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9795

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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